Making it easier to be British

Thursday, 8 November 2012, 5pm - 8.30pm
Event details Making it easier to be British
Event holder(s) Professor Tariq Modood, SPAIS

Dr Varun Uberoi, Brunel University

Mr David Goodhart, Director of Demos

Mr Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future

Baroness Falkner, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on International Affairs

Mr Paul Goodman, Editor of Conservative Home

Title Making it easier to be British
Type of event Panel Discussion
Date 08/11/2012
Time 5pm-8.30pm
Venue Committee Room G, House of Lords, Westminster, London, SW1A 0PW
Chair Lord Professor Bhikhu Parekh
Booking link This event is for policymakers only
Abstract

Focusing on timely debates about multiculturalism and ‘Britishness’, this event involves leading academics and politicians and will be of interest to policy makers. Lord Professor Bhikhu Parekh will chair an evening seminar at the House of Lords where Tariq Modood and Varun Uberoi will present their most policy relevant findings. David Goodhart and Sunder Katwala who are respectively the directors of Demos and British Futures think tanks, the Liberal Democrat parliamentarian Baroness Falkner and Conservative Home editor Paul Goodman will offer critical responses to their paper after which there will be questions from the audience.

This event will be followed by a reception.